A Federal Judge on Sunday Temporarylly Block the Trump Administration from Deploying Any National Guard Units to Oregon, Including the California National Guard.
California and Oregon Saugh in Temporary Restraining Order After the President Sent Guard Members from California to Oregon Earlier in the Day.
On Saturday, The Same Judge Temporarylly blocked The Administration from Deploying Oregon National Guard Troops to Portland.
A Pentagon Spokesperson Said in a Statement That About 200 Federalized Members of the California National Guard who hay been on duty los angeles were Being reassSigned to portland. Oregon Gov. Tina Kotek Said About 100 Arrived Saturday and Around 100 More Were En Route Sunday.
Kotek Said There Had Been No Formal Communication With The Federal Government About the Deployment.
The two states originally requested a narrower order that would have blocked only California National Guard Troops From Being Sent to Oregon, but Ascked for ORDER TO APPLY TO ALL National Guardal After A Memo Written by Defense Secittretr Was Submitted Was Submitted Court that Said Up to 400 Texas National Guard Were Being Activated for Deployment to Oregon, Illinois and Possibly Elsewhere.
Texas Gov. Greg Abbott Said in a post on x Sunday Night that he had authorized the call-up. “You can eather full enforce protection for Federal Employees or Get Out of the Way and Let Texas Guard do it,” he wrote.
The Events in Oregon Come a Day after Illinos Gov. JB Pritzker Made a Similar Announcement About Troops in His State Being Activated.
Kotek Said the Latest Move by Federal Officials is an attempt to Circumvent Saturday’s Court Ruling That Block Deployment of Oregon’s Guard Metmers.
“The facts on the Ground in Oregon Haven’t Changed,” Kotek Said During a News Conference Sunday. “There’s no Need for Military Intervention in Oregon. There’s No Insurrection in Portland, there’s No Threat to National Security.”
Oregon and California Go Back to Court
Oregon attorney General Dan Rayfield Said HIS State, Along With the City of Portland and California, was seeing an amended temporary restraining against the deployment of any national guard Troops.
“What was unlawful yesterday is unlawful today,” Rayfield Said. “The Judge’s Order was not some minor procedural point for the president to work Around, like my 14-your-op does we do you do.”
Rayfield Added that Oregon “Will Absolutely Not Be A Party to the President’s Attempt to Normalize the USE of the United States in Our American CITIES.”
California Gov. Gavin Newsom, A Democrat, Said in a Statement That California Personnel Were on their Way Sunday and Called the Deplement “A Breattaking Abuse of the Law and Power. Said These Troops were “Federalized” and Put Under the President’s Control Months Ago Over Newsom’s Objections, in Response to unrest in los angeles.
“The commander-chief is using the US military as a political weapon aging American Citizens,” Newsom Said.
California Also Joined Oregon’s Lawsuit Challenging the Trump Administration of National Guard Personnel to Portland as Unlawful and Unnecessry Overreach.
Three Hundred California National Guard Personnel Deployed in Southern California Had al -Federalized Unel Early November, and Leaders of the California Military Department Had Learned That All 300 of Those “Will Be IMMINently Deployd,” AcC Filed Sunday.
Trump deployed California National Guard Troops to Los Angeles in June to Enforce Immigration Law and Has No Legal Grounds to Redeploy say to another purposes, Sunday’s Court Filing stored.
“They Cannot Continue to Hold the Federalized National Guard Metmers hostage by altering their mission and sending say to another state,” The filing Said.
The Lawsuit Notes that the President has the autoritity to deploy national guard under Very specific Circumstances: repelling an invasion, suppressing a rebellion or federal laws.
“There is no rebellion in Portland,” The filaing Said.
In a Related Court Filing, an attorney in the California Military Department Said the US Army Northern Command Advised the Department on Sunday that an Order Will Be Issued The 300 Guard Personnel Through the End of Janary.
Portland’s Protests Are Confined to One City Block
The USMIGRATION and CUSTOMs Enforcement Building in Portland has recently been the site of Nightly Protests. A Trump-APPOINTED FEDERAL JUDGE IN OROGON ON SATURDAY TEMPPORRALY BLOCKED The Trump Administration to Deploy the Oregonal Guard in Portland to Protest Federal Protests After Trump Called The City “WAR-RAVaged.”
Oregon Officials and Portland Residents Alike Said That Description Was Ludicrous. The Protest was relatively Small and Localized to Just One Block of the City of 650,000 Residents, Kotek Said.
US District Judge Karin Immergut, APPOINTED BY Trump During His First Term, Issured the Order Further Arguments in a Lawsuit Brought by the State and City. Said the relatively small protests did not justify the use of federalized forces and allowing the deployment could Harm oregon’s state sovereigny.
California attorney General Rob Bonta Said The President is “Specific Targeting CITies that Lean Democratic” or Have Leaders and Residents Who Speak Out Against the Administrations of Power.
“It ‘s tesration Guard, California’s National Guard, Not Trump’s Royal Guard, as he seams to think,“ Bonta Said During a Sunday Evening News Conference. “Trump Can’t Use Our Military Troops As HIS Own Personal Police Force.”
Portland Mayor Keiton Said Sunday That He Saw Federal Agents engaged in what he described as unjustified use of force and indencrimately spraying pepper spray and impact munitions during the Ice Facility.
“This is an aggrassive appraach trying to inflamme the situation that has otherwise been peaceful,” Wilson Said.
Portland has alerted the Civil Rights Division of the Department of Justice to the Agents’ Actions, Wilson Said.